Title
Partially Supervised Compatibility Modeling
Abstract
Fashion Compatibility Modeling (FCM), which aims to automatically evaluate whether a given set of fashion items makes a compatible outfit, has attracted increasing research attention. Recent studies have demonstrated the benefits of conducting the item representation disentanglement towards FCM. Although these efforts have achieved prominent progress, they still perform unsatisfactorily, as they mainly investigate the visual content of fashion items, while overlooking the semantic attributes of items (e.g., color and pattern), which could largely boost the model performance and interpretability. To address this issue, we propose to comprehensively explore the visual content and attributes of fashion items towards FCM. This problem is non-trivial considering the following challenges: a) how to utilize the irregular attribute labels of items to partially supervise the attribute-level representation learning of fashion items; b) how to ensure the intact disentanglement of attribute-level representations; and c) how to effectively sew the multiple granulairites (i.e, coarse-grained item-level and fine-grained attribute-level) information to enable performance improvement and interpretability. To address these challenges, in this work, we present a partially supervised outfit compatibility modeling scheme (PS-OCM). In particular, we first devise a partially supervised attribute-level embedding learning component to disentangle the fine-grained attribute embeddings from the entire visual feature of each item. We then introduce a disentangled completeness regularizer to prevent the information loss during disentanglement. Thereafter, we design a hierarchical graph convolutional network, which seamlessly integrates the attribute- and item-level compatibility modeling, and enables the explainable compatibility reasoning. Extensive experiments on the real-world dataset demonstrate that our PS-OCM significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art baselines. We have released our source codes and well-trained models to benefit other researchers (https://site2750.wixsite.com/ps-ocm).
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/TIP.2022.3187290
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON IMAGE PROCESSING
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Visualization, Representation learning, Graph neural networks, Task analysis, Semantics, Image color analysis, Data models, Partial supervision, disentangled representation, fashion compatibility estimation, graph convolutional network
Journal
31
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1057-7149
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
30
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Weili Guan14310.84
Haokun Wen232.09
Xuemeng Song300.34
Chun Wang400.34
Chung-Hsing Yeh564180.82
Xiaojun Chang600.68
Liqiang Nie72975131.85